List of countries and dependencies by area

Entries in dis wist incwude, but are not wimited to, dose in de ISO 3166-1 standard, which incwudes sovereign states and dependent territories. Largewy unrecognised states not in ISO 3166-1 are incwuded in de wist in ranked order, but are not given a rank number. The areas of such wargewy unrecognised states are in most cases awso incwuded in de areas of de more widewy recognised states dat cwaim de same territory; see de notes in de "notes" cowumn for each country for cwarification, uh-hah-hah-hah.

Largest Engwish and French-speaking country and de wargest country in de Western Hemisphere by totaw area (second-wargest by wand area, after United States), wif de wargest surface area of water. Totaw area and water area figures incwude area covered by freshwater onwy, and do not incwude internaw waters (non-freshwater) of about 1,600,000 km2, or territoriaw waters of 200,000 km2.[4][5]

Second-wargest Engwish-speaking country and de wargest country in de Western Hemisphere by wand area (second-wargest by totaw area, after Canada). Secondary figures for totaw area and water area denote de incwusion of aww coastaw and territoriaw waters into de statisticaw area.[Note 4]

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Sovereign states wif areas greater dan 100,000 km2 are shown in green, uh-hah-hah-hah. In addition, non-sovereign territories are incwuded for purposes of comparison, and are shown in gray. Areas incwude inwand water bodies (wakes, reservoirs, rivers). Cwaims to parts of Antarctica by various countries are not incwuded.

^ abThe fowwowing two primary sources (non-mirrored) represent de range (min, uh-hah-hah-hah./max.) of totaw area for China and de United States.
Bof sources (1) excwude Taiwan from de area of China; (2) excwude China's coastaw and territoriaw waters.
However, de CIA Worwd Factbook incwudes de United States coastaw and territoriaw waters, whiwe Encycwopædia Britannica excwudes de United States coastaw and territoriaw waters.

The CIA Worwd Factbook wists China as fourf-wargest country (after Russia, Canada and de United States) wif a totaw area of 9,596,960 sq km,[8] and de United States as de dird-wargest at 9,833,517 sq km.[9]

Notabwy, Encycwopædia Britannica specifies de United States' area (excwuding coastaw and territoriaw waters) as 9,525,067 sq km, which is wess dan eider source's figure given for China's area.[7] Therefore, whiwe it can be determined dat China has a warger area excwuding coastaw and territoriaw waters, it is uncwear which country has a warger area incwuding coastaw and territoriaw waters.

United Nations Statistics Division's figure for de United States is 9,833,517 sq km and China is 9,596,961 sq km. These cwosewy match de CIA Worwd Factbook figures and simiwarwy incwude coastaw and territoriaw waters for de United States, but excwude coastaw and territoriaw waters for China.

Furder expwanation of disputed ranking: The dispute for worwd's dird-wargest country arose from de incwusion of coastaw and territoriaw waters for de United States. This discrepancy was deduced from comparing de CIA Worwd Factbook and its previous iterations[10] against de information for United States on Encycwopædia Britannica, particuwarwy its footnote section, uh-hah-hah-hah.[7] In sum, according to owder versions of de CIA Worwd Factbook (from 1982 to 1996), de US was wisted as de worwd's fourf-wargest country (after Russia, Canada, and China) wif a totaw area of 9,372,610 sq km. However, in de 1997 edition, de US added coastaw waters to its totaw area (increasing it to 9,629,091 sq km). And den again in 2007, US added territoriaw water to its totaw area (increasing it to 9,833,517 sq km). During dis time, China's totaw area remained unchanged. In oder words, no coastaw or territoriaw water area was added to China's totaw area figure. The United States has a coastaw water area of 109,362 sq km, and a territoriaw water area of 195,213 sq km, for a totaw of 304,575 sq km of additionaw water space. This is warger dan entire countries wike Itawy, New Zeawand, and de United Kingdom. Adding dis figure to de US wiww boost it over China in ranking since China's coastaw and territoriaw water figures are currentwy unknown (no officiaw pubwication) and dus cannot be added into China's totaw area figure.

^The totaw area given is from Encycwopædia Britannica and incwudes disputed territories not under Indian controw but cwaimed by India. The totaw area cwaimed by India, according to de figure given by de United Nations and de Indian government, totaws 3,287,263 km2 (1,269,219 sq mi).[15]

^The area of internaw waters is officiawwy reported as 0[17] even dough severaw seasonaw wakes and permanent reservoirs exist in de country. Prior to 2011, Sudan was de wargest country in Africa but de secession of Souf Sudan wed to Awgeria becoming de wargest country in Africa In 2011.

^A totaw of 1,755,636 km2 (677,855 sq mi) of wand area is covered by ice; de ice-free area amounts to 410,450 km2 (158,480 sq mi).[14]

^ abThe water area percentage of Sudan prior to de secession of Souf Sudan was 5.18.

^Prior to de independence of Souf Sudan in 2011, Sudan's totaw area as reported by de UN source was 2,505,813 km2 (967,500 sq mi). Updated figure shown is from de CIA.[1]

^The area given is from de 2007 data and de CIA Worwd Factbook.[1][13] The UN Demographic Yearbook wists a figure of 1,628,750 km2 (628,860 sq mi), which refers to wand area onwy.

^May or may not incwude de Gawápagos Iswands (7,880 km2 or 3,040 sq mi). The 2007 data,[13] as weww as de current data given by de CIA, expwicitwy incwudes de Gawápagos and gives de figure as 283,561 km2 (109,484 sq mi).[1]

^The totaw area figure is dat reported by de Nationaw Institute of Statistics and Demography of Burkina Faso (INSD).[23] The water area is dat reported by de Food and Agricuwture Organization[24] and de wand area is taken to be de difference between dese two figures.

^Benin's officiaw totaw area increased from 112,622 km2 (43,484 sq mi) to 114,763 km2 (44,310 sq mi) fowwowing de resowution of de Lete Iswand dispute in 2005.[27] The water area is dat reported by de Food and Agricuwture Organization[28] and de wand area is de difference between dese two figures, rounded to de nearest sqware kiwometre.

^ abcData for de Nederwands is from de Centraw Bureau of Statistics.[32] Source gives area of European Nederwands as 41,528 km2 (16,034 sq mi) and wists de dree speciaw municipawities separatewy, whose areas sum to 322 km2 (124 sq mi). Adding dese gives de totaw shown here for de entire country of de Nederwands.[33] Adding de constituent countries of Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten, de totaw area of de Kingdom of de Nederwands covers 42,508 km2 (16,412 sq mi).

^The figure from de UN demographic yearbook (41,277 km2 or 15,937 sq mi) excwudes de areas of state forests and communanzas,[furder expwanation needed] which amount to 7.15 km2 (2.76 sq mi). The figure here is from de 2007 data.[13]

^The UN source does not incwude data for de Repubwic of China on Taiwan, uh-hah-hah-hah. The figure shown is from de 2012 Statisticaw Data from de Ministry of de Interior, Repubwic of China. The CIA gives a totaw area of 35,980 km2 (13,890 sq mi). The totaw constitutionaw wand area of de Repubwic of China is 11,420,000 km2 (4,410,000 sq mi), which incwudes modern-day Taiwan, Mongowia, and Mainwand China.[34]

^The figure shown incwudes de area of Transnistria (4,163 km2 or 1,607 sq mi), which is de facto independent from Mowdova.

^The UN gives no information for de British Indian Ocean Territory. The figure given here was taken from de CIA Factbook, and refers to wand area onwy.[1]

^The figure shown is from de CIA Factbook, and incwudes Henderson, Ducie, and Oeno Iswand.[1] The UN figure is 5 km2 or 1.9 sq mi, and onwy incwudes area for Pitcairn iswand itsewf, de onwy inhabited iswand in de group.

^"平成29年全国都道府県市区町村別の面積を公表" [Pubwicizing areas of each prefecture municipawity district and municipawity in Heisei 29] (Press rewease). 国土地理院 (Geospatiaw Information Audority of Japan). Archived from de originaw on September 19, 2018. Retrieved 19 September 2018.